Get Storage Container

Get Storage Container

Get specified Datastore or Datastore Cluster.

Request
URI
GET
https://{api_host}/cloudapi/1.0.0/storageContainers/{storageContainerUrn}
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Path Parameters
string
storageContainerUrn
Required

storageContainerUrn

string
storageContainerUrn
Required

storageContainerUrn

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
200

OK

Returns StorageContainer of type(s) application/json;version=39.0 
{
    "id": "string",
    "name": "string",
    "datastoreType": "string",
    "isDatastoreCluster": false,
    "isEnabled": false,
    "isDeleted": false,
    "moref": "string",
    "vcRef": {
        "name": "string",
        "id": "string"
    },
    "totalStorageMb": 0,
    "usedStorageMb": 0,
    "provisionedStorageMb": 0,
    "iopsCapacity": 0,
    "isDistributed": false,
    "distributionHealth": "string"
}
string
id
Optional

Unique VCD Id for the Storage Container.

string
name
Optional

Name for the Storage Container.

string
datastoreType
Optional

Datastore Type of the Storage Container.

boolean
isDatastoreCluster
Optional

True if this Storage Container is a Datastore Cluster.

boolean
isEnabled
Optional

True if this Storage Container is enabled. Unset if this storage container is part of a Datastore Cluster

boolean
isDeleted
Optional

Deleted state of the Storage Container.

string
moref
Optional

Unique Id in Virtual Center of the Storage Container.

EntityReference
vcRef
Optional

Entity reference used to describe VCD entities

integer As int64 As int64
totalStorageMb
Optional

Total storage in MB for this Storage Container.

integer As int64 As int64
usedStorageMb
Optional

Total used storage in MB for this Storage Container.

integer As int64 As int64
provisionedStorageMb
Optional

Total provisioned storage in MB for this Storage Container.

integer As int64 As int64
iopsCapacity
Optional

Total IOPS capacity for this Storage Container.

boolean
isDistributed
Optional

Read-Only field that is true if this Storage Container represents a datastore that has been marked as distributed in VCenter server. A distributed datastore is expected to have peers in other sites that are kept in sync via some external mechanism and can be leveraged to facilitate sharing of catalog contents.

string
distributionHealth
Optional

Read-Only field that represents the health of the distribution. Can be one of:

  • HEALTHY
  • DEGRADED
Distribution health of a datastore is degraded if any peer site's heartbeat is not detected on this datastore in the last X minutes. Where X is a configurable property and defaults to 5 minutes.

Availability
Added in 36.0
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